I’m going home Saturday night, shot a few games of pool first, with some friends, but also remembered to take my prescribed Adivan, or whatever the hell it’s called. I’d just gotten off a 12 hour shift, and ideally, should have been in bed. Instead, I ended up in jail, with a broken wrist, shattered C7 vertabrae, and a black eye.
Smacked into a tree, at about 50mph. Don’t remember anything but the cold handcuffs. They busted me for DUI, although I was clean, but refused the test, since I’d had a couple earlier in the day. Time to “lawyer up” I reckon.
Hold the phone…you’ve been in an accident, you’ve got a broken vertebra (not to mention a broken wrist), and they put you in cuffs and in jail, instead of the hospital? :eek:
The very reason I plan to buy a huge ass super Hummer, is so when some fool like this comes around the bend and hits me, he’ll bounce off me like a raindrop.
He somehow managed to discover what his injuries were, yet doesn’t remember anything else. There are two scenarios that would account for this: 1) he was transported from the crash site to the hospital, cleared by the doc after treatment, and brought to jail, or 2)brought to the jail, found to be in need of medical treatment, transported to the hospital, checked out, and brought back to the jail once the doc discharged him.
Yeah, and they make you listen to all kinds of Lord of the Rings minutae while they fix your hurts.
I was kinda hopin OP had gotten into a fistfight with a real monster of a bar fly. I imagined him fracturing his wrist on the other guy’s jaw just before the retaliatory left hook snapped his neck & put his lights out.
OP, make that be your story OK? The under-the-influence thing just doesn’t work.
You need a lawyer for sure. You’ll still get stuck with the DUI most likely, even though you probably would have tested clean. Combining Ativan with another sedative is some boneheaded shit.
Why you guys refuse the test, I’ll never know. I see it all the time(I work for a law firm), and refusal even when sober will still get you a DWI/DUI and you’ll still be treated like one(at least in this area).
I hope your wounds heal, but I also hope you stop driving while using Ativan…bad idea!
I thought this too. There was a judge in NY that was recently busted for DWI, refused the test, claimed racism (her and the arresting officers were black), and just got off totally free.
But doing something that irresponsible? Thank God and your lucky stars it was a tree you hit and not an oncoming car with someone’s mother or child in it. I mean, really, could you live with knowing you killed an innocent person due to not being as careful as you could?
Again, glad you are okay but hope you chalk this up as one of those life lessons and learn from it.